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A patient who was recently discharged from The Medical Center of Aurora claims that she was also given the medical information of 20 other patients in her file. The Colorado-based hospital allegedly gave Karen Billings seven pages of operating room records after her Nov. 22 hospital release, according to a Fox31 report. Read more on HealthITSecurity.com.

And more medical/health information held by non-medical entities gets leaked. The hackers known as Rex Mundi, who freely admit that they hack for profit and attempt to extort their targets into paying them NOT to leak hacked data, have posted data on the Dark Web from entities that failed to pay them. Among the companies is…

One of the recurring themes on this blog has been that medical/health data deserves stringent protections, regardless of the type of entity that collects and retains the information. We saw this again recently when we learned that Sony employees enrolled in Sony’s health plan had their information hacked and then exposed on the Internet by the hackers….

Charles Ornstein, ProPublica reports: This story was co-published with the New York Times. Anita Chanko could not sleep. At 4 a.m., on an August night in 2012, she settled onto the couch in her Yorkville living room with her dog, Daisy, and her parrot, Elliott, and flipped on the DVR. On came the prior night’s episode…

Sarah Zagorski writes: According to ABC News, hundreds of abortion records have been found in a warehouse in Houston, Texas. The records are dated from 1992 to 2012 and contain sensitive information like social security numbers and abortion details. The woman who found the records, Esmeralda Cedillo, said she discovered them when her dog was on the…

This seems like a good time to thank everyone who has been reading this blog, and especially those who submit items to share with others. May you all have a Happy and Healthy New Year in 2015!